Графични страници
PDF файл
ePub
[blocks in formation]

43. Veto of governor to bills, provisions as to.

44. Resolves to be treated like bills.

45. Governor and council to nominate and appoint officers: nomination three days before appointment.

46. Governor and council have negative on each other.

47. Field officers to recommend, and governor to appoint. company officers.

48. President of senate to act as governor when office vacant; speaker of house to act when office of president of senate also vacant.

49. Governor to prorogue or adjourn legislature and call extra sessions.

ARTICLE

50. Power and duties of governor as commander-in-chief; limitation.

51. Pardoning power.

52. Militia officers, removal of. 53. Staff and non-commissioned officers, by whom appointed. 54. Division of militia into brigades, regiments, and companies.

55. Moneys drawn from treasury only by warrant of governor pursuant to law.

56. Accounts of military stores, etc., to be rendered quarterly.

57. Compensation of governor and council.

58. Salaries of judges.

COUNCIL.

59. Councilors, mode of election, etc.

60. Vacancies, how filled if no choice.

61. Occurring afterward; new election; governor to convene; duties.

62. Impeachment of councilors. 63. Secretary to record proceedings of council.

64. Councilor districts provided for.

65. Elections by legislature may be adjourned from day to day; order thereof.

SECRETARY, TREASURER,

COMMISSARY-GEN

ERAL, ETC.

66. Election of secretary, treasurer, and commissary-general.

67. State records, where kept; duty of secretary.

68. Secretary to give bond.

ARTICLE COUNTY TREASURERS, ETC. 70. County treasurers, registers of probate, solicitors, sheriffs, and registers of deeds elected.

71. Counties may be divided into districts for registering deeds.

JUDICIARY POWER.

72. Tenure of office to be expressed in commissions; judges to hold office during good behavior, etc.; removable by address.

73. Judges to give opinions, when. 74. Justices of the peace commissioned for five years.

75. Divorces and probate appeals, where tried.

76. Jurisdiction of justices in civil causes.

77. Judges and sheriffs, when disqualified by age.

78. Judges and justices not to act as counsel.

79. Jurisdiction and terms of pro

bate courts.

80. Judges and registers of probate not to act as counsel.

CLERKS OF COURTS.

81. Clerks of courts, by whom appointed.

ENCOURAGEMENT OF LIT. ERATURE, ETC.

82. Encouragement of literature,

etc.

ARTICLE

OATHS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS, EXCLUSIONS FROM

OFFICE, ETC.

83. Oath of civil officers. 84. Before whom taken. 85. Form of commissions. 86. Form of writs.

87. Form of indictments, etc. 88. Suicides and deodands. 89. Existing laws to continue in force, if not repugnant to constitution.

90. Habeas corpus.

91. Enacting style of statutes. 92. Governor and judges prohibited from holding other offices.

93. Incompatibility of offices; only two offices of profit to be holden at same time.

94. Incompatibility

offices.

of certain

95. Bribery and corruption disqualify for office.

96. Value of money, how computed.

97. Constitution, when to take effect.

98. Revision of constitution provided for.

99. Question on revision to be taken every seven years. 100. Enrollment of constitution.

Note, showing when the different constitutions of the state and the constitutional amendments were adopted.

PART FIRST.

BILL OF RIGHTS.

ARTICLE 1st. All men are born equally free and independent; Equality of men; origin therefore, all government of right originates from the people, and object of government. is founded in consent, and instituted for the general good. fiii,212.lxv,113. [ART.]12d. All men have certain natural, essential, and herent rights, among which are the enjoying and defending and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and, in a word, of seeking and obtaining happiness.

in- Natural
rights.
life 1,9; 398.
liv, 117; 590.
lxv, 103.
lxvii, 59.

[ART.] 3. When men enter into a state of society, they Society, its organization surrender up some of their natural rights to that society, in and purposes. order to insure the protection of others; and, without such an equivalent, the surrender is void.

liii, 9.

science un

liii, 9. lix, 225.

[ART.] 4th. Among the natural rights, some are in their Rights of convery nature unalienable, because no equivalent can be given or alienable. received for them. Of this kind are the rights of conscience. [ART.] 5th. Every individual has a natural and unalienable Religious freedom right to worship God according to the dictates of his own con- recognized. liii, 9. science and reason; and no subject shall be hurt, molested, or lviii, 240. lix, 225. restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshiping God Ixiv, 48. in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience, or for his religious profession, sentiments, or persuasion, provided he doth not disturb the public peace or disturb others in their religious worship.

[ART.] 6th. As morality and piety, rightly grounded on Public worship of the evangelical principles, will give the best and greatest security to Deity to be encouraged. government, and will lay in the hearts of men the strongest obligations to due subjection, and as the knowledge of these is lxvi, 230. most likely to be propagated through a society by the institution of the public worship of the Deity and of public instruction in morality and religion, therefore to promote those important purposes, the people of this state have a right to empower, and do hereby fully empower, the legislature to authorize, from time

'First inserted in this and following articles of Bill of Rights in General Statutes, 1867.

Right of elect-
ing religious
teachers.
Sm., 1.

liii, 9; 138.
lvi, 508.
lviii, 170.
lxvi, 230.

Free tolera-
tion.
liii, 9.

Existing contracts not affected.

State sover-
eignty.
lxvi, 369.

Accounta

bility of magistrates and

officers.

lxvi, 369.

lxvii, 49.

No hereditary office or

place.

to time, the several towns, parishes, bodies corporate, or relig-
ious societies within this state to make adequate provision, at
their own expense, for the support and maintenance of public
Protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality.

Provided, notwithstanding, that the several towns, parishes,
bodies corporate, or religious societies shall at all times have
the exclusive right of electing their own public teachers and of
contracting with them for their support and maintenance. And
no person of any one particular religious sect or denomination
shall ever be compelled to pay towards the support of the
teacher or teachers of another persuasion, sect, or denomina-
tion.

And every denomination of Christians, demeaning themselves quietly and as good subjects of the state, shall be equally under the protection of the law; and no subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law.

And nothing herein shall be understood to affect any former contracts made for the support of the ministry; but all such contracts shall remain and be in the same state as if this constitution had not been made.

[ART.] 7th. The people of this state have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent state, and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right pertaining thereto which is not or may not hereafter be by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in congress assembled.

[ART.] 8th. All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents and at all times accountable to them.

[ART.] 9th. No office or place whatsoever in government shall be hereditary, the abilities and integrity requisite in all not being transmissible to posterity or relations.

[ART.] 10th.

lxv, 113.

Government being instituted for the common Right of revolution. benefit, protection, and security of the whole community, and lii, 592. not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men, therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted and public liberty manifestly endangered and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to, reform the old or establish a new government. The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

elective fran

lx, 385.

Protection

lic use, etc.

XXXV, 141.

[ART.] 11th. All elections ought to be free; and every in- Elections and habitant of the state, having the proper qualifications, has chise. equal right to elect and be elected into office. [ART.] 12th. Every member of the community has a right no taxation to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and reciprocal. Private propproperty. He is, therefore, bound to contribute his share in erty for pubthe expense of such protection, and to yield his personal, 120, 130. ii, 22. service, when necessary, or an equivalent. But no part of a iii, 534. iv, 568. vii,35. viii, 398. man's property shall be taken from him or applied to public x, 369. xi, 19. xvii,47,64. XXV, uses without his own consent or that of the representative body 541. xxvii, 183. of the people. Nor are the inhabitants of this state con- xxxvi, 404. trollable by any other laws than those to which they or their li, 504. liv, 590. lix, 191; representative body have given their consent. lvi, 399:514. lviii, 110; 549. *260;480. lx,219;346;522. lxi,631. lxii,66. [ART.] 13th. No person who is conscientiously scrupulous lxv,113. Conscienabout the lawfulness of bearing arms shall be compelled thereto, tiously scrupulous, not provided he will pay an equivalent. compellable to bear arms. [ART.] 14th. Every subject of this state is entitled to a Legal remecertain remedy, by having recourse to the laws, for all injuries free, comhe may receive in his person, property, or character, to obtain plete, and right and justice freely, without being obliged to purchase it; xxv, 539, 540. completely and without any denial; promptly and without lxv, 113. delay; conformably to the laws.

xlvii,444. 1,591.

dies to be

prompt.
lxi, 610.

titled to full

[ART.] 15th. No subject shall be held to answer for any Accused encrime or offense until the same is fully and plainly, substantially and substanand formally, described to him, or be compelled to accuse or of charge; not furnish evidence against himself. And every subject shall have obliged to fur

tial statement

Inishevidence;

« ПредишнаНапред »